Michael Weiss
Gastroenterology · Ft Myers, FLNPI 1568445955
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 330 payments — averaging $377.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Eli Lilly$118K
- AbbVie$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$653
- Pfizer$607
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$541
- Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$239
- plus $1K from 18 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $1016.62 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Eli Lilly$4K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,41197%
- Education$1753%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Eli Lilly | 13 | $117,853 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 134 | $3,310 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 44 | $653 |
| Pfizer | 31 | $607 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 29 | $541 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 3 | $239 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 11 | $184 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 13 | $182 |
| Gilead | 18 | $151 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 6 | $132 |
| Merck | 3 | $77 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 3 | $68 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 3 | $62 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 4 | $52 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $49 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $36 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $33 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $16 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$124,443 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,388 gastroenterology providers in Florida.
Other gastroenterology in Ft Myers
- Howard SchwartzTavernier$38.8M
- Guy NeffSarasota$17.6M
- Syed LateefClermont$6.4M
- Jeffrey SchneiderCoral Springs$6M
- Zaid RanaMiami$5.4M
- David NelsonGainesville$5.2M
- Alan WeintraubTampa$4.7M
- Curtis FreedlandNew Port Richey$4.5M
- Paul HellsternCrystal River$4.5M
- Henry LevineOrlando$3.4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.